Anonymous wrote:One boy who is weak academically but is adored by faculty was admitted to an Ivy ED. Is that communicated in rec letters

DP. Or did college contact high school (or vice versa) to discuss this boy?

Schools that use Slate let counselors log in and download decisions, usually after they are released.

As you can imagine, some students report a different decision than the one they got and schools like to verify the decision before logging it in the school’s system.

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Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Can someone provide an example? How does anyone know?

One example is, the standard counselor form asks the counselor to give, essentially, the student’s class rank — best, excellent (top 10%), etc. This can be subjective, not necessarily GPA based, and at private schools it’s conventional to rank the students compared to the rest of the applicant pool, not the whole student body.

This was an issue in a Sidwell lawsuit a decade ago or so, where Sidwell had given a student different rankings for different colleges. That was Sidwell’s defense, and the court accepted it, and the chronicle of higher ed published a piece expressing shock that the student and her immigrant parents had ever thought that that part of the recommendation form could mean what it literally said.

One boy who is weak academically but is adored by faculty was admitted to an Ivy ED. Is that communicated in rec letters

Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Can someone provide an example? How does anyone know?

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Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Though some schools do like to call.

Most elite colleges and universities will not take calls. Imagine what would happen if they did! They might email your high school counselor to confirm something confusing but there’s no way they have the time to have gab-Fests.

No, I mean they call once they have the potential list of acceptances from your school. To clarify certain details, etc. Emailing must also happen, but the anecdotes I am aware of involve actual conversations.

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Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Though some schools do like to call.

Most elite colleges and universities will not take calls. Imagine what would happen if they did! They might email your high school counselor to confirm something confusing but there’s no way they have the time to have gab-Fests.

Lol. There are 90k applications to get to

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Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Though some schools do like to call.

Most elite colleges and universities will not take calls. Imagine what would happen if they did! They might email your high school counselor to confirm something confusing but there’s no way they have the time to have gab-Fests.

Anonymous wrote:At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Though some schools do like to call.

At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students. Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.

Anonymous wrote:This depends entirely on the particular college and the particular high school. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Privates tend to be smaller and some are feeders to certain colleges

This depends entirely on the particular college and the particular high school. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Do colleges/ universities send a list of accepted students to students' high schools? For example, Apple HS receives a list of their high school admits to UVA.

How much coordinating do the two (HS & college) do before selecting students. e.g. Larla and Karla are good friends with similar stats from Apple public HS. Does UVA consult Apple HS for feedback/input regarding Larla and Karla or other students beyond the rec letters?